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Every college teacher I know is bemoaning the same kind of thing. Whether it's rude behavior, lack of intellectual rigor, or both, we are all struggling with the same frightening decline in student performance and academic standards at institutions of higher learning. A sense of entitlement now pervades the academy, excellence be damned.

This is from March of 2011??? Keith, did you post it because it resonates with what you're seeing in Florida now? I don't think this rudeness describes Albany State U, just the obvious unpreparedness of the students. Our writing lab specialists do encounter demanding students sometimes, but I think it's fairly rare, and I haven't heard of extended bad feelings.

Virtually all talk of cognitive enhancement focuses exclusively on the enhancement of individual intelligence. In a fascinating paper published in Science entitled "Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups" (2010), Dr. Anita Williams Woolley and her colleagues find that there is such a thing as collective intelligence: the analogue of general intelligence, or IQ, except it exists at the level of the group rather than the individual.